Family members are anxiously awaiting news about their loved ones and have gathered near the site to try to secure information. Police are currently attempting to determine who was evacuated from the building and who remains missing.

Official reports on the numbers of injured and missing remain scare at this point. However, the London Ambulance Service reported at 6:15 a.m. local time that they had taken 30 patients to five London hospitals. Nick Paget-Brown, the leader of Kensington and Chelsea council, also stated in an interview with Sky News UK that he was currently working to establish how many people were in the building when the fire broke out and noted that "several hundred would have been in there." However, Paget-Brown also said he did not know whether people were trapped in the building, saying "That's a matter for the emergency services."

The Grenfell Tower fire marks another awful tragedy for the city of London in a very short amount of time and people around the world are sending Londoners messages of love and comfort in this very trying time.